PRIDE: There is a business rule that suggests one never mixes business and politics. I largely live by that rule, but my blog affords me something different. As a technologist, I seldom have the good fortune of seeing our technology applied in the pursuit of freedom or in helping the masses in times of extreme human turmoil. I, for one, am extremely proud of the role Groove has played in the our new fight. I am also proud of the public servants that I work with in the DoD, Intelligence, and Homeland Security spaces. To the naysayers I offer this editorial from a guy named Tom Bennett, which was published in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.
'GOOD THINGS WERE DONE 'NOT IN YOUR NAME'
Editor -- To the "Not in My Name" geniuses, the Hollywood posers, communists and anarchists posturing as "peace protesters": Iraq is on its way to being free; and just as you requested, it's not in your name. So, for the hundreds of children released from prison where they were held for not joining Saddam Hussein's army, that was not in your name. For the exposure of the torture chambers where Hussein and his henchmen killed and raped, that was not in your name. For the hundreds of Iraqis who will not die this year for speaking out against their brutal regime, that was not in your name. For the oil fields that will be turned into wealth and prosperity for the people of Iraq, that was not in your name. For the Iraqi citizens wildly cheering their glimpse of freedom as the statue of Hussein was toppled in Baghdad, that especially was not in your name.
Tom Bennett, Mill Valley
6:18:23 PM 
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